This is the Winter 2018 course discussion blog for and by UCLA students enrolled in LGBTQ Studies 183: Queer Arts in LA.
This course includes a creative component. When this course was first offered during the Fall 2012 quarter, the students researched queer artists who have a significant connection to Los Angeles. Then created a collaborative website.

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

When We Were Outlaws

1. What was the reason that you interviewed
Joseph Tomassi even though he has opposing views from you?

Jean Cordova is a lesbian, chicano feminist.
Joseph Tomassi, who is a captain of National Socialist Liberation Front, asked
her to transmit his word to the public by writing about him after she
interviewed him. I believe the National Socialist Liberation Front not only has
nothing to do with Cordova’s political stance but also stands for white
superiority which is in contrast to her beliefs. That’s why I couldn’t
understand clearly why she agreed to listen what he said and even wrote the
article about it. Is that because she thought as a journalist, she has a duty
to convey every political opinion without judging it?

2. Could you tell us how the gay and
lesbian community can seek a way to go forward together?

I think that lesbian communities are still
underestimated compared to those of gays. Reading about the conflict between
GCSC and other lesbian feminists, I wondered how those two can be united as one
community though they have their gender identity as a prime factor of their
idea.

3. Do you still believe that non-monogamy
is a way of political resistance towards heterosexual marriage as a feminist?

It was hard for me to understand that monogamy
was invented by men to enslave women like a possession because I think it’s
natural to want someone to get involved only with you when you have a serious
relationship with him or her.